Improvement in mashing-machines



l.. KUSSUTH & C. HERULD. Mashihg-Machines.

N`O.57,l3. Patented`Dec.8,1874,

lliiiim i UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.,

JOSEPH KOSSUTH, OF NEW BRITAIN, AND CHARLES HEROLD, OF HART- FORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN MASHlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,6] 3, dated December 8, 1874; application led September 19, 1874. l

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH KOSSUTH, of New Britain, Hartford county, Connecticut, and CHARLES HEROLD, of Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, have jointly invented certain Improvements in Mashing-Machines, of which the following is a speciiication, refer ence being had to the accompanyingl drawings, where- Figure l is a top View; Fig. 2, a side view; Fig. 3, a top View with the cover of the device removed. Fig. 4 is a side View with the exterior case and cover cut in central vertical section.

Mashing-machines are used in breweries to mix the malt and Water. Such is the purpose of this device.

The letter a indicates a round metallic case having a cover, b, With a central opening, b1, for the malt to enter, and an opening, b2, for the Water. Within the case a is hung a rotating mixer-wheel composed of the outer annular band c, (preferably perforated by holes 07,) the linkes, d, and the central shaft e hung, by its ends, in the two crossbars fj", on the upper of which is set the distributing-cone g. The malt, entering through the mouth b1, falls upon the cone g, and is scattered or distributed below. The water, entering through the mouth b2, falls, with the malt, upon the nukes d, causing the mixe1-whecl to rotate rapidly, and thus to mix the water and malt intimately. As to the form of the dukes d it is only essential that they be so shaped that the passage of the water will cause them to rotate. The part-s are metallic, commonly of copper. After the water and malt are mixed they fall down below into a proper receptacle.

An important and essential feature of this Wheel as to cause the water escaping therev from to both mix with the malt and cause the rotation of the mixer-wheel, all substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH KOSSUTH.

CHARLES HEROLD. Witnesses:

WM. E. SIMONDS, CEAS. W. CLIET. 

